On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:19:04 lynn wrote:
12.3 Hi I'm converting some music CD's for my 'phone using Sound Juicer. It's fine for rock/pop but poor for classical tracks. I notice sound juicer will only write ogg. It says mp3 and mp4 output is not available.
This may be because it requires external libraries like libmp3lame to support mp3 (but I'm guessing because I'm not familiar with soundjuicer).
Qns. 1. Would I gain by converting to mp3 or mp4 instead?
Little to nothing if your phone supports ogg. All are lossy formats and the quality is very much dependent on bit rate.
2. If so what else do I need?
At lease you will need to install libmp3lame (from the packman repository).
3. How about the quality? Any advice on an app which may be better than sj? I'd rather stick to point and click but I don't mide cli if that's the only way I can up the quality.
I'm much more familiar with cli apps for dealing with sound and video format conversion. SOX is the "swiss army knife" of audio conversion tools but it still depends on external libraries to support multiple formats. FFmpeg is another - very powerful (deals wtih almost every video and audio format known to man, but again many rely on external libraries), constantly in development, sparsely documented and with a steep learning curve, but once you master it you'll never go back. With FFmpeg though it pays to keep up with development rather than relying on distro releases (and that means installing from source and updating regularly). For audio conversion for the phone it might be a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut, but it ihas much wider uses than that. If you're definitely only wanting to audio, give sox a try. If you're confident with bash scripting (or some other scripting language) it's easy enough to automate batch processing once you've settled on the parameters you want.
Thanks. I ask because Ubuntu seems to have a google stranglehold on anything multimedia in Linux:( Thanks, L x
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